• Governments increasingly turn to DNS-level blocking interventions because they’re easy to implement.
• Study show a drop in usage of public DNS services is making DNS blocking efforts easier.
• Browser-based security, user-level content filtering, and greater transparency are alternate ways to implement censorship without erasing connections.

The Austrian Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecommunications, RTR, has decided not to regulate the network operators with regard to Router Freedom, allowing ISPs to impose their equipment to consumers. For RTR, routers configured in “bridge mode” is synonymous with terminal equipment freedom. The FSFE laments this decision as a missed opportunity for Net Neutrality in the country.

Chile was building an analog of our modern internet way back in the 1970s. A massive, national communications network for business and government to coordinate efficiently. The engineer (Stafford Beer) who designed it was from Surrey, in the UK, and worked for the Allende goverment that was building this system.

After the 1973 coup, General Pinochet had the system destroyed.

Had it caught on, we might have had global internet in our homes in the 1970s.

I'm old enough to remember when the Internet wasn't a group of five websites, each consisting of screenshots of text from the other four.

t reveals that public resolvers dominate the internet, accounting for nearly 60% of recursive DNS usage. Telecom giants represent nearly 9%, with Google the clear front-runner at a little over 30%, followed by Amazon Web Services at 16%. The report also highlights the declining usage of EDNS Client Subnet (ECS), the slow adoption of IPv6 and DNSSEC, and the emergence of HTTPS records as a solution to the “CNAME-at-apex” challenge.

The 19-inch rack format with rack-units of 1.75 inches (44.45 mm) was established as a standard by AT&T around 1922 in order to reduce the space required for repeater and termination equipment in a telephone company central office. The earliest repeaters from 1914 were installed in ad hoc fashion on shelves, in wooden boxes and cabinets. Once serial production started, they were built into custom-made racks, one per repeater. But in light of the rapid growth of the toll network, the engineering department of AT&T undertook a systematic redesign, resulting in a family of modular factory-assembled panels all "designed to mount on vertical supports spaced 191⁄2 inches between centers. The height of the different panels will vary, ... but ... in all cases to be a whole multiple of 13⁄4 inches".

In this paper, I explore the rise and fall of Gopher as the dominant protocol for file search and retrieval over the Internet. After its creation in 1991 at the University of Minnesota, use of Gopher exploded. The popular press lauded it as an important step beyond File Transfer Protocol (FTP), in terms of both usability and ease of implementation. The growth of Gopher was soon overshadowed, however, by the World Wide Web. A major milestone is this direction was the release of the Mosaic graphical browser by the University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications [NCSA] in 1993.

On 11 June 2020, the United Nations Secretary-General announced the issuance of his report, Roadmap for Digital Cooperation, during the Thematic Debate organized by the President of the 74th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, on the impact of rapid technological change on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets. The Secretary-General’s Roadmap responded to the recommendations of his High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation on key issues such as digital connectivity, digital inclusion, human rights, artificial intelligence, and trust and security.

Schmerzlich tritt zutage, was bereits seit Jahren durch den Index für die digitale Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Digital Economyand Society Index = DESI) erfasst wird: Österreich rangiert im europäischen Vergleich mitten unter den Schlusslichtern, was die Versorgung mit schnellen (30 Mbit/s oder mehr) und ultraschnellen (100 Mbit/s oder mehr) Anschlüssen angeht. Nur Kroatien, Griechenland und Zypern schneiden schlechter ab.

das #internet geht aus, aber #vorratsdatenspeicherung sollte helfen: http://t.co/5G8b4is1Zj cc @Der_Postillon

schmunzelt ueber http://t.co/Eb2pjOkBuC Ausschreibung - eh kloa - a dort: http://t.co/LeQggWvwAr @ISPA_at #Internet #WWW #Kommunikation #Job

schmunzelt ueber http://t.co/Eb2pjOkBuC Ausschreibung - eh kloa - a dort: http://t.co/LeQggWvwAr @ISPA_at #Internet #WWW #Kommunikation #Job

#Ireland gets sneaky #internet #censorship law without debate http://tinyurl.com/5vtg8wb

YESS!!!!!